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Show TELEGRAPHIC i , . L THE ITK WAR. Good InflntDfes Prevail ihe Xndlanst Hint I'eace. Denier, Co!., 12. Tbe following was received by Governor Pitkio today: to-day: Lake City, Col , 10. Receive at Denver, Oct. 12, 9.40 a. m. To Governor Pitkin. The following is reliable newe from Loa Picoe Agency: Sapavaneero, one of tbe tnotit reliable eub-chiefa, wbo vfas eenl by Ouray to White Pine Agency, after news o( the fight had been received by Ouray, returnrd from Milk River yesterday at 11 o'clock. He reports that he saw die white men and children at White, River agency in charge of Cbiet Douglas; also one of the emptoe who was present when tbe lodiaus ( made Ibe attack upon the agency. . Tuia man Killed one Indian and wounded anotber. Sapavaoeero tninka tnree or four more employes are also alive aa their tracks were Been around the agency buildings, aod they may have fled to tba woods. Father Meeker was billed. The report aa given in the papers that Sapavaneero and Sbavard took part in the. fight i untrue, and it ie u.'eo not sure that Ohie Douglas led tha White River UteB. Ouray thinks that Jack, a White River Ute, commanded the Indians In-dians in tbe charg on Tbornbtrrgh's command. (Signed) Lesdks. Lew Pinos Iodian Agency, Cel., 9. Em ploy 6 Brady, who went to White River with an ludiau escort, under Ctiief Sapavaneero, baa returned. Tbe Indians obeyed Chief Ouray's order mentioned a few days ago, as soon aa commuuicalr-d. They ceased fighting and moved off. No further trouble ia anticipated, unless soldiere advance. Chief Douglas Eenda word to Ouray that Ihe women, children, money and the papers of the agency will be Bent here when safe to do it. Ouray does not believe ali tbe employes of the agency were killed. Ouray endorses en-dorses the agent'a dispatch to Washington Wash-ington for a peace commission to in vestigate tbe trouble and let the blame rest where it belongs. A runner just in from the Southern Ute agency, with a letter from tbe agent, saya a council has beeu held, and Utea will abide by Ouray's order. Tbey want peace and will hate' nothing to do with the Vt bite River trouble, and request Our.ty to inform the Wbite River Utes of their decision. deci-sion. Tbe Herald, discussing Ute aflaira, says tbey have at meted our people, and not only murdered individuals but made war against tbe United States. They appear to have doue so without provocation; but even if they had auSered wrong, their treaty with us bound them to peaceable remedies. reme-dies. It will not do now to Bay that after all they are still entitled to former treaty rights. They have deliberately de-liberately forfeited these. Government may, if it chooses to do bo, resettle tbem on their reservation, miy reinstate them in former and forfeited for-feited rights, but it Deed not do so, and in our judgment ought not to do so. The Times thinka the unanimity with whicn Colorado has decided that a general war ia imminent, and that the yeomanry of the country could put it down, is a peculiar feature of tbe Ute War business. It sayB it haa never been told why the military authorities (ound it ueoessary to send scouts into the reservation to warn scattered prospectors of their danger, and when straagline parties of these enterprising people broke cover and ran out in all directions, very much as rabbits run out of a burning forest, it was generally Bupponed they were fugitive missionaries. The Times mockingly conoludes: It is manifestly the duty of congress to Bee that the Indians are exterminated, with all possible tenderress. Bear River, Col., 11, via Rawlins. Wy., 13, Indian reports brought in from tbe ogeccy by Los Pines Utes say that thirty-seven Indians were killed during tbe fight of tbe 29th ol September and tbe siege until October 5tb, the date of General Merrill's arrival. ar-rival. Rawlins, Wy., 13. Lieutenants Bourbe and Schuyler arrived here this morniug, and a', last an authentic report is had of the doings of General Merritt and command eiuce their march to tbe front. On tbe a Iter noon of the day on which he reached Captain Cap-tain Payne's camp be bad a Ggut with tbe Indians. He bad to move bis camp about a mile from Payne's Id position that night on account of the fearful stench created by dead animals. Merritt moved upon the agency and reached there on Saturday. Satur-day. The Indians are retreating southward, aod it is expected that, in email bands, tbey will drop into tbe various Ute agencies arjd, thus covering cover-ing up themselves, it will never be known as to wbo were the warriors who opened the battle on Thorn-burgh. Thorn-burgh. Dismounted companies and the wounded will be here in seven days. Washington, 13. Secretary Schurz, immediately upon receiving; a dispatch dis-patch elating that tbe hostile Utes bad retired through tbe intluence of Ouray, called at the war department and consulted with General Sherman on the subject. The latter at once sent tbe following telegram to General Sheridan: Hkadquaetees Army ok the U. S., Washington, Oct. 13. To General P. E. Sheridan, Commanding Com-manding Division, etc., Chicago: Tbe honorable secretary of the interior has, this morning, called with a dispatch telegram conveying a proposition pro-position for peace, which is communicated communi-cated for your own information, and which should go for what it is worth. Generals Crook and Merritt, the latter od the spot, can tell if the bostiles have ceased figutinp. If eo General Merritt will go in very event to tbe agency, to ascertain tbe actual condition condi-tion oi fads. All Indians who oppose must be cleared out of tbe way if tbey resist. If tbey surrender their arms and ponies tbey should be held as prisoners to be disposed of by superior orders. The secretary of the interior will send a special agent at once to Ouray to be honest and be our friend. 1 He may prevent southern Ulfl from being involved, and the interior department can be a Iriend to him afterward by showinp favor to some ol bis special friends, but the murderers of the agent and cmployt-3 must be punished, as also those who fought and killed Major Thoruburgb and men. Plea?e acknowledge receipt. (Signed) W. T. Shekmas, General. Io reply to a telegram from Indian Agent Stanley, Ibe secretary of the interior sent the following: |